The New York ''Daily News'', officially titled the ''Daily News'', is an American

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based in

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, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media, in May 2021. After the Alden acquisition, alone among the newspapers acquired from Tribune Publishing, the ''Daily News'' property was spun off into a separate subsidiary called Daily News Enterprises.

History

''Illustrated Daily News''

The ''Illustrated Daily News'' was founded by Patterson and his cousin, Robert R. McCormick. The two were co-publishers of the ''

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'' and grandsons of Tribune Company founder Joseph Medill.''Current Biography 1942'', pp. 648–51: "Patterson, Joseph Medill" as an imitation of the successful British newspaper ''

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''. When Patterson and McCormick could not agree on the editorial content of the Chicago paper, the two cousins decided at a meeting in Paris that Patterson would work on the project of launching a Tribune-owned newspaper in New York. On his return, Patterson met with Alfred Harmsworth, who was the Viscount Northcliffe and publisher of the ''Daily Mirror'', London's tabloid newspaper. Impressed with the advantages of a tabloid, Patterson launched the ''Daily News'' on June 24, 1919, as ''Illustrated Daily News''. The ''Daily News'' was owned by the Tribune Company until 1993.

''Daily News''

The ''Daily News'' was not an immediate success, and by August 1919, the paper's circulation had dropped to 26,625. Still, New York's many

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commuters found the tabloid format easier to handle, and readership steadily grew. By the time of the paper's first anniversary in June 1920, circulation had climbed over 100,000 and by 1925, over a million. Circulation reached its peak in 1947, at 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday. The ''Daily News'' carried the slogan "New York's Picture Newspaper" from 1920 to 1991, for its emphasis on photographs. A camera has been part of the newspaper's logo from day one. It became one of the first newspapers in New York City to employ a woman as a staff photographer, in 1942, when Evelyn Straus was hired. The paper's later slogan, developed from a 1985 ad campaign, is "New York's Hometown Newspaper", while another has been "The Eyes, the Ears, the Honest Voice of New York". The ''Daily News'' continues to include large and prominent photographs, for news, entertainment and sports, as well as intense city news coverage,

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, classified ads,

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, a

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section, and an opinion section. News-gathering operations were, for a time, organized by staff using two-way radios operating on 173.3250 MHz (radio station KEA 871), allowing the assignment desk to communicate with its reporters who used a fleet of "radio cars". Excelling in sports coverage, prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo, Bruce Stark and

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. Columnists have included Walter Kaner. Editorial cartoonists have included

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(Channel 11 in New York City), whose call letters were based on the ''News''s nickname of "New York's Picture Newspaper"; and later bought what became WPIX-FM, which is now known as WFAN-FM. The television station became a Tribune property outright in 1991, and remains in the former Daily News Building. The radio station was purchased by Emmis Communications, and since 2014 has been owned by

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as an FM simulcast of its AM namesake. The paper briefly published a Monday-Friday afternoon counterpart, ''Daily News Tonight'', between August 19, 1980, and August 28, 1981; this competed with the ''

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'', which had launched a morning edition to complement its evening newspaper in 1978. Occasional "P.M. Editions" were published as extras in 1991, during the brief tenure of

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as publisher. From August 10, 1978, to November 5, 1978, the multi-union 1978 New York City newspaper strike shut down the three major New York City newspapers. No editions of the ''News'' were printed during this time. In 1982, and again in the early 1990s during a newspaper strike, the ''Daily News'' almost went out of business. In the 1982 instance, the parent Tribune Company offered the tabloid up for sale. In 1991, millionaire Robert Maxwell offered financial assistance to the ''News'' to help it stay in business. Upon his death later that year, the ''News'' seceded from his publishing empire which soon splintered under questions about whether Maxwell had the financial backing to sustain it. Existing management, led by editor James Willse, held the ''News'' together in bankruptcy; Willse became interim publisher after buying the paper from the Tribune Company.

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bought the paper in 1993. The ''News'' also maintains local bureaus in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, at

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, within One Police Plaza, and at the various state and federal courthouses in the city. In January 2012, former ''

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'' and ''New York Post'' editor

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was appointed editor-in-chief of the ''Daily News''. Myler was replaced by his deputy Jim Rich in September 2015. , it was the ninth-most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States. In 2019, it was ranked eleventh. On September 4, 2017, Tronc (now, Tribune Publishing), the publishing operations of the former Tribune Company (which had spun out its publishing assets to separate them from its broadcast assets), announced that it had acquired the ''Daily News''. Tronc had bought the ''Daily News'' for $1, assuming "operational and pension liabilities". By the time of purchase, circulation had dropped to 200,000 on weekdays and 260,000 on Sundays. In July 2018, Tronc fired half of the paper's editorial staff, including the editor-in-chief, Jim Rich. Rich was replaced by Robert York, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Tronc-owned '' The Morning Call'' in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The paper's social media staff were included in the cut; images and memes that were later deleted were posted on its

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feed. Its parent, Tribune Publishing, was acquired by

in May 2021. In September 2021, editor Robert York left and was replaced on an interim basis by Andrew Julien, who also serves as the editor and publisher of ''

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''. They also printed a Sunday edition called, ''Sunday News''.

Editorial stance and style

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'' journalist Alan Feuer said the ''Daily News'' focuses heavily on "deep sourcing and doorstep reporting", providing city-centered "crime reportage and hard-hitting coverage of public issues ..rather than portraying New York through the partisan divide between liberals and conservatives". According to Feuer, the paper is known for "speaking to and for the city’s working class" and for "its crusades against municipal misconduct". ''The New York Times'' has described the ''Daily News''s editorial stance as "flexibly centrist" with a "high-minded, if populist, legacy". For over five decades, the ''News'' was a staunchly Republican newspaper, in line with its sister publication, the ''

'', supporting isolationism in the early stages of

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. From the 1940s through the 1960s, the ''Daily News'' espoused conservative populism. By the mid-1970s however, it began shifting its stance, and during the 1990s, it gained a reputation as a moderately liberal alternative to the right-wing ''Post'' (which until 1980 had been a Democratic bastion). The newspaper endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election, Democrat

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in 2008, Republican Mitt Romney in 2012, Democrat

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in 2016, and Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.

Headquarters

From its founding, it was based at 25 City Hall Place, just north of

, and close to Park Row, the traditional home of the city's newspaper trade. In 1921 it moved to 23 Park Place, which was in the same neighborhood. The cramped conditions demanded a much larger space for the growing newspaper. From 1929 to 1995, the ''Daily News'' was based in 220 East 42nd Street near Second Avenue, an official city and national landmark designed by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood. The paper moved to 450 West 33rd Street (also known as 5 Manhattan West) in 1995, but the 42nd Street location is still known as The News Building and still features a giant globe and weather instruments in its lobby. (It was the model for the '' Daily Planet'' building of the first two ''

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'' films). The former ''News'' subsidiary WPIX-TV remains in the building. The subsequent headquarters of the ''Daily News'' at 450 West 33rd Street straddled the railroad tracks going into Pennsylvania Station. The building is now the world headquarters of the

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and is part of Manhattan West. In June 2011, the paper moved its operations to two floors at 4 New York Plaza in lower Manhattan. Sixteen months later, the structure was severely damaged and rendered uninhabitable by flooding from Hurricane Sandy. In the immediate aftermath, news operations were conducted remotely from several temporary locations, eventually moving to office space at the Jersey City printing plant. In early 2013, operations moved to rented space at 1290 Avenue of the Americas near Rockefeller Center—just four blocks north of its rival ''

.'' The staff returned to the permanent 4 New York Plaza location in early November 2013. In August 2020, the ''Daily News'' closed its Manhattan headquarters.

Printing facilities

In 1993, the ''Daily News'' consolidated its printing facilities near Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey. In 2009, the paper spent $150 million on printing presses as part of its change to full-color photographs. In 2011, the company spent $100 million to buy three new presses, using a $41.7 million Urban Transit Hub Tax Credit from the State of New Jersey. In 2022, the company plans to close its Jersey City printing plant and outsource its printing operations to North Jersey Media Group.

Pulitzer Prizes

The ''Daily News'' has won eleven Pulitzer Prizes. In 1998, ''Daily News'' columnist Mike McAlary won the

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for his multi-part series of columns (published in 1997) on Abner Louima, who was sodomized and tortured by New York City police officers. In 2007, the ''News editorial board, which comprised Arthur Browne, Beverly Weintraub, and Heidi Evans, won the

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for a series of thirteen editorials, published over five months, that detailed how more than 12,000 rescue workers who responded after the

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had become ill from toxins in the air. The Pulitzer citation said that the award was given to the paper "for its compassionate and compelling editorials on behalf of

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workers, whose health problems were neglected by the city and the nation." In 2017, the ''Daily News'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in collaboration with non-profit ProPublica "for uncovering, primarily through the work of reporter Sarah Ryley, widespread abuse of eviction rules by the police to oust hundreds of people, most of them poor minorities."

Noteworthy front pages

In 1928, a ''News'' reporter strapped a small camera to his leg, and shot a photo of Ruth Snyder being executed in the electric chair. The next day's newspaper carried the headline "DEAD!". On October 29, 1975,

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gave a speech denying federal assistance to spare New York City from bankruptcy. The front page of the October 30, 1975 ''Daily News'' read: "FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD". Ford later said the headline had played a role in his losing the 1976 presidential election. On November 16, 1995, the Daily News front page displayed an illustration of Newt Gingrich as a baby in a diaper with the headline "Crybaby" following revelations that Gingrich had shut down the government in retaliation for a perceived snub from

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aboard

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. In the year leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the paper's headlines became more provocative, helping to rejuvenate it, and with more opinionated editorials with the aforementioned headlines, once again in an effort to demonstrate its place in the city's media. Following the

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, in which 14 people were killed, the paper's front page displayed "GOD ISN'T FIXING THIS" along with tweets from Republican politicians offering

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.Chris Cillizza
The New York Daily News’s very provocative front page on the San Bernardino shooting
''Washington Post'' (December 2, 2015). The paper advocated for tighter gun laws, condemning what it described as "empty platitudes and angry rhetoric" rather than action "in response to the ongoing plague of gun violence in our country."Jessica Durando
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''USA Today'' (December 3, 2015). The provocative headline received both praise and criticism. In January 2016, after Republican senator and presidential candidate

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disparaged "New York values" in a Republican primary debate, the ''News'' responded with a cover page headline reading "DROP DEAD, TED" and showing the

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giving the middle finger.

Controversies

The ''Daily News'' supported the

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. On March 14, 2003, six days before the

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, the ''Daily News'' reported "President Bush is targeting an aggressive, dangerous, psychotic dictator who has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and would use them without compunction. ... With Saddam in power, there can be no peace. One argument you hear raised against war is fear of retaliation: America mustn't upset the terrorists. After 9/11, does this even need to be rebutted? Terrorists have killed thousands of Americans already and thirst for more. Fighting back is a necessity, unless people want the peace of the grave." On December 20, 2016, ''Daily News'' columnist

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compared the assassination of the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, to the assassination of Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Jewish student Herschel Grynszpan, saying "justice has been served."

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has demanded an official apology from ''Daily News''. Since 2018, ''Daily News'' has been preventing internet users in the

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from accessing its website, on grounds of missing

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compliance.

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